Cheese toast with tomato and onion
American cheese melts into a salty, unctuous blanket over crisp toast, with fresh tomato and raw onion to cut through the richness. This shelf gives you one ingredient, so we build around it with what a weeknight kitchen usually holds. Supper in fifteen minutes.
About 450 calories a serving, 27 g protein, 40 g carbohydrate, 20 g fat. From USDA figures for 100% of the ingredients; amounts are the recipe's.
To buy
- 1 medium tomato
From your shelf
- 8 slices American cheese product slices
Staples
- 4 slices bread
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 medium onion
- to taste salt
- to taste pepper
- Heat the oven to 425°F [220°C]. Butter 4 slices of bread on one side and lay them buttered side down on a baking sheet.
- Slice 1/4 of a medium onion into thin rings and slice 1 medium tomato into 8 thin rounds. Scatter half the onion over the bread, divide the 8 cheese slices between the 4 slices, then layer the tomato slices on top.
- Bake until the cheese has melted and the bread is golden at the edges, 5 to 7 minutes. Meanwhile, toss the remaining raw onion with a pinch of salt.
- Top each toast with the raw onion, season with salt and pepper, and serve right away.
Note Swap the tomato for cucumber slices, or add a handful of arugula after baking. Leftovers keep one day wrapped; reheat gently in a low oven. Serve with a simple salad or soup alongside to stretch the meal.
On the label
CULTURED PASTEURIZED MILK AND SKIM MILK, BUTTERMILK, MILKFAT, SALT CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF SODIUM AND POTASSIUM PHOSPHATES, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, LACTIC ACID, SORBIC ACID (PRESERVATIVE), APO-CAROTENAL AND BETA-CAROTENE COLORI ENZYMES.
Land O Lakes, cheese, serving 21 g, package 1.5 lb/680 g. Ingredients as printed on the label.
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Cooks as american cheese. Half of it left? Use up the american cheese.